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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9304924" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Yeah. That wishy-washy, &quot;we're really here! but you'll never actually see us!&quot; take is the worst of both worlds. You can't get the &quot;well done, my good and faithful servant&quot; vibes, because the relationship is entirely one-sided on the part of the believer-PC. It comes across as hollow and fake. But you also can't get the &quot;Are you there God? It's me, Margaret&quot; feels either, because there's no ambiguity, no nuance--the gods definitively exist and have quite clear and articulated stances on a great many things.I'm honestly at a loss for what could possibly be enabled by non-interventionist but objectively-real deities that isn't done better by either &quot;matter of faith&quot;-style deities or &quot;active, interventionist, and reciprocating&quot;-style deities.As far as I can tell, the only thing it does better than either of those two is keeping deities out of the game. Which, I mean, cool I guess? But you could do that just as easily without even mentioning deities at all, so...like...why?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9304924, member: 6790260"] Yeah. That wishy-washy, "we're really here! but you'll never actually see us!" take is the worst of both worlds. You can't get the "well done, my good and faithful servant" vibes, because the [I]relationship[/I] is entirely one-sided on the part of the believer-PC. It comes across as hollow and fake. But you also can't get the "Are you there God? It's me, Margaret" feels either, because there's no ambiguity, no nuance--the gods definitively exist and have quite clear and articulated stances on a great many things. I'm honestly at a loss for what could possibly be enabled by non-interventionist but objectively-real deities that isn't done better by either "matter of faith"-style deities or "active, interventionist, and reciprocating"-style deities. As far as I can tell, the only thing it does better than either of those two is keeping deities [I]out[/I] of the game. Which, I mean, cool I guess? But you could do that just as easily without even mentioning deities at all, so...like...why? [/QUOTE]

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